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Almagest

International Journal for the History of Scientific Ideas

Editors: Maria Rentetzi Efthymios Nicolaïdis
Publishing Manager: Eva Schalbroeck
Publisher: Brepols
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Print ISSN: 1792-2593
Online ISSN: 2507-0371

Frequency:
2 issues/year

In collaboration with:
Hellenic Society of History, Philosophy

Method of peer review
double-blind undertaken by a specialist member of the Board or an external specialist

Keywords
History of science, History of ideas, Epistemology, History of philosophy, Science and Religion, Modern science, Contemporary science

Accepted Language(s):
English, French

Accepts Contributions in Open Access

ABOUT

The scope, format, and editorial board of Almagest will change from January 2025 onwards. These changes are explained in the text below. Information about the current scope, format, and editorial board of Almagest – valid until the end of 2024 – can be found at the bottom of this page. Please take this editorial transition into account when considering to submit a contribution to Almagest.

Information below valid from January 2025 onwards

The journal Almagest is in transition. From an International Journal for the History of Scientific Ideas it is turning into a Transnational Journal for the History of Technoscience. The shift signifies that the journal will place a new emphasis on the rich histories of not just scientific ideas but also of experiments, people, objects, images, devices, instruments, and epistemic ‘things’ as they cross multiple national and/or institutional boundaries. This change is intended to reflect a prolific disciplinary (dis)order, in which science is seen as deeply entangled with technology, diplomacy as strongly related to science, and knowledge as inherently political.

Almagest invites high-quality contributions from scholars around the globe who bring fresh perspectives to the history of technoscience. The journal is not constrained by focus on any particular time or place. In addition to individual articles and book reviews, Almagest comprises three different sections:

1. A ‘Plog’ — a neologism that stands for Printed blog, a short text written in an accessible, conversational style like a blog and prepared for a website or a digital medium. This section is meant to communicate histories of science and technology in a way that can connect academics with wider audiences outside our ivory towers.

2. A picture is worth a thousand words. This section invites papers of c. 1,000 words that briefly analyze an image related to science and/or technology. The rationale here is that images are not only historical sources of important value as ‘texts’, but that they also open-up further research questions and unearth stories.

3. Alma-g(u)est. Oral history has a strong methodological value, and this section reiterates its importance in writing the history of technoscience. For this section, Almagest invites short, edited interviews with key actors in the field, as well as historical case studies.

Information below valid until the end of 2024

The journal Almagest considers the history of science both as a history of ideas and as an activity that takes place in institutional and social context. In discussing the history of scientific ideas, the journal addresses the philosophical assumptions underpinning the ideas as well as the scientific developments themselves; it also addresses the influence of the historical context on these ideas.
One of the defining features of the journal’s approach to the history of science is the belief that the history of scientific ideas, of research priorities, of conceptualizations of nature, and of the various external factors that are associated with scientific discoveries are deeply related to History, generally construed, and to cultural and socio-economic parameters. Following this approach, the journal invites papers on the history of scientific ideas in specific regions or related to a specific cultural context (for example, papers on science and religion). It also invites papers on the relations of scientific ideas to the material civilization, in particular to scientific instruments.
It is a firm belief of the editorial board that history of science can contribute substantially to the scientific education of both students and the general public, especially at a time when debates over "intelligent design" are raising major questions not only over what counts as science but also on what ought to be available to students in their school curricula. The journal, therefore, invites also papers on the utilization of history of science in science education. Last but not least, Amagest is edited by the network of history of science of Southeastern Europe, and therefore it aims to constitute a forum for the historians of science in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Le journal Almagest envisage l’histoire de la science en tant qu’histoire des idées et activité se déroulant dans un contexte institutionnel et social. En considérant l’histoire des idées scientifiques, le journal aborde les suppositions philosophiques à l’origine de ces idées ainsi que les développements scientifiques en eux-mêmes ; il traite également de l’influence du contexte historique sur ces idées. L’une des principales caractéristiques de la manière dont le journal aborde l’histoire de la science est la conviction que l’histoire des idées scientifiques, des priorités de recherche, des conceptualisations de la nature et des différents facteurs externes concernant les découvertes scientifiques est profondément liée à l’Histoire, telle qu’elle est généralement interprétée, ainsi qu’aux paramètres culturels et socioéconomiques. Le journal publie également des articles sur les relations entre les idées scientifiques et la civilisation matérielle, en particulier les instruments scientifiques et l’utilisation de l’histoire de la science dans l’éducation scientifique. 

  • EDITORIAL BOARD

    The scope, format, and editorial board of Almagest will change from January 2025 onwards. These changes are explained in the text below. Information about the current scope, format, and editorial board of Almagest – valid until the end of 2024 – can be found at the bottom of this page. Please take this editorial transition into account when considering to submit a contribution to Almagest.

    Information below valid from January 2025 onwards

    Editors
    Maria Rentetzi
    Efthymios Nicolaïdis

    Book review editors
    Loukas Freris
    Kapil Patil
    Dannae Karydaki

    Plog editor
    Roque Manuel Jimenez Sumalave

    Interviews editor
    Spyros Petrounakos

    Editorial Board

    Duran, Saltuk, Istanbul Technical University
    Figueirôa, Silvia Fernanda de Mendonça, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
    Jami, Cathérine, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales
    Kostov, Alexandre, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    Kramer, Derek, University of Sheffield
    Kumar, Deepak, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
    Millán Gasca, Ana Maria, University Roma TRE
    Navaro, Jaume, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
    Santesmases Navarro de Palencia, María Jesús, Centre for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
    Shalimov, Sergey, Russian Academy of Sciences
    Shi, Yunli, University of Science and Technology of China
    Soares, Luiz Carlos, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
    Tampakis, Kostas, National Hellenic Research Foundation
    van Tieggelen, Brigitte, Science History Institute


    Information below valid until the end of 2024

    Editors
    Efthymios Nicolaidis, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece
    Constantine Skordoulis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

    Assistant Editor
    Gianna Katsiampoura, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

    Managing Editor
    Vangelis Koutalis, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece

    Editorial Board
    Barahona Ana, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
    Bevilacqua Fabio, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
    Blay Michel, CNRS-Observatoire de Paris, France
    Chatzis Konstantinos, Université Paris-Est -- Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (UMR CNRS 8134), France
    Cullen Christopher, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK
    Demidov Sergei, Institute of History of Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
    Figueirôa Silvia, State University of Campinas, Brazil
    Günergun Feza, Department of the History of Science, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University, Turkey
    Halleux Robert, Member of the Institut de France, France
    Ihsanoglu Ekmeleddin, Honorary President of Turkish Society for History of Science, Turkey
    Jullien Vincent, Université de Nantes, France
    Knobloch Eberhard, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany
    Kostov Alexandre, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
    Liu Dun, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Milan-Gasca Ana, Università degli studi Roma Tre, Italy
    Navarro Jaume, Ikerbasque and University of the Basque Country, Spain
    Numbers Ronald, University of Wisconsin, USA
    Petkovič Tomislav, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Petrovic Aleksandar, University of Belgrade, Serbia
    Tampakis Kostas, Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece
    Vogt Annette, Max Planck Institute, for the History of Science, Germany
    Yano Michio, Professor Emeritus of Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan

  • AUTHOR INFORMATION

    Submissions

    Please submit your paper by e-mail to the Managing editor Vangelis Koutalis, vankout@eie.gr and cc to the Coeditor Efthymios Nicolaidis, efnicol@eie.gr Papers must be submitted in both word.doc and in pdf format.

    Guidelines for authors, including a detailed stylesheet, can be found on https://hpdst.gr/publications/almagest/guidelines-for-authors

    Licencing & Copyright
    This journal offers different licence options. A standard licence gives Brepols the exclusive copyright for all published content. Gold Open Access articles will be published under a CC BY-NC 4.0 Licence. For these articles the copyright remains with the authors. Please discuss with your Publishing Manager if you or your funding body require an alternative CC-licence. See our dedicated webpages for further details on our open access options at https://www.brepols.net/open-access/journals, and our self-archiving policies at https://www.brepols.net/open-access/self-archiving-policy

    Ethics, Malpractice and Authorship Statement
    Déclaration d’éthique pour les revues de Brepols: https://www.brepols.net/ethics

    Archiving
    All articles are digitally archived in Portico

  • RANKING & INDEXING

    ERIH PLUS - European Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences

    History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (HSTM) Database

    Index Religiosus

    International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance

    International Medieval Bibliography

    IsisCB Sources and Resources for the History of Science and Allied Fields (indexed on article level)

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    ANVUR Area 8 – Scientific
    ANVUR Area 11 – Scientific
    ANVUR Area 11 – Class A: A(2017) 11/C2

    CIRC (C Classification in human sciences)

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Franco-Mexican Texts in the History and Philosophy of Science
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Creationism in Asia, Oceania, and Eastern Europe
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Science and Imagination
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Science and Orthodox Christianity
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The Inscriptions of the Antikythera Mechanism
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